Bunnings. You thought it was just the hardware chain with a great range of brands at warehouse prices, right? Well yes, but that’s not the full story. Intriguingly, as Benlife and Theblackdouglas report in Better Breeders Podcast #110, Macquarie University academics have recently polemicised hard to have Bunnings’ advertising junk mail publications…

Betterbreeders' Christmas holiday - Hunter S Thompson once advised never to go anywhere without one's attorney. We ought to have heeded the Dr of Gonzo's orders, as more plaintiffs than Matthew Evans in his Fairfax restaurant reviewing days have shopped the jurisdictions and hauled Betterbreeders through the courts over the Summer break for testing…

Is there wi-fi? Well... is there? It's a great question. And it might even be a line from a little known Samuel Beckett play. Regular listeners of the Betterbreeders podcast, however, will recognise that question as the natural successor to the oft-heard, plaintive cry from our own youth, when on the family holiday we would repeatedly beg our paren…

The Better Breeeders are not afraid to weigh in on any and every topic affecting modern life. Pharmaceutical policy is no exception. The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration has recently decided that, as of February 2018, medicines containing codeine will be supplied by prescription only. In Better Breeders podcast ep#107, hear Benlife and T…

The sound and fury: the mighty rumbles of both the Rolls Royce Merlin and the Holden 173 cubic inch straight-6 represent victories in the 1941 Battle of Britain and 1974 Australian family suburban mobility, respectively. And just as the farty growl of a Kingswood was the sound of childhood for us here at Better Breeders, so too was the highly toxic…

[cue Elizabethan lute music] "...If music be the food of love, play on...", wrote Shakepseare in Twelfth Night. Music and food: two topics beloved of Benlife and Theblackdouglas, the two halves of Better Breeders. In episode 105 of the Better Breeders podcast, listeners are offered: a forensic analysis of the origins of food programming on Australi…

Spring has sprung and, as our Sun's azimuth climbs higher day by day in our cobalt skies, our two hosts BenLife and TheBlackdouglas presage the arrival, upon their impending 50th birthdays, of the little Aussie government issued present for all men in the Autumn shades of gold and brown of their lives, comprising a test kit for a chronic illness em…